Ewan

I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the van
up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?

Thanks for any help - Ewan

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Tom Peel

Ewan schrieb:
    > I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    > van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding
    > any agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any
    > recommendations. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >
    > Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >
    > --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed
    > by a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk

No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website! Usually the one-way
rental costs are so prohibitive it's cheaper to drive the thing back
where you got it from.
Tomorrow I'm driving a van empty from Germany via Dover to northern
England and bringing it back loaded. Pity you didn't post a few days
back, maybe we could have shared the costs.

T.

Alan S

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:31:37 +0200, "Ewan "
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the van
    >up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
    >agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
    >Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >Thanks for any help - Ewan

What is your nationality and what period are you going to
need the van for?

If you are not a European, and if you need the van for more
than about three weeks, then a Eurodrive leaseback may suit
you.

The price depends on the country you are booking from.

This is the Renault version - there are equivalent Peugot
and Citroen plans http://www.eurodrive.renault.com/.

A Trafic van, for example, three weeks Paris-London would
cost just under $1000 pw (with full no-excess insurance and
roadside serice); that drops with time, so six weeks is just
under $600 pw.

No - I'm not an agent; just an impressed customer after
using them twice. My little Clio averaged out at less than
AU$40 per day over 7 weeks.

Cheers, Alan, Australia
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Ben

If you can find somebody willing to sheppard it back to Paris to present
to the rental company, they may be more willing. There are a lot of
backpackers who would be willing to play this game.

Ben

Ewan wrote:
    > I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    > van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding
    > any agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any
    > recommendations. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >
    > Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >
    > --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed
    > by a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk

Dave Frightens Me

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:31:37 +0200, "Ewan " <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the van
    >up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
    >agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
    >Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?

Why do you want the van?

If you are planning on moving a bunch of stuff, consider the campervan
agencies, as you can often get an excellent deal for doing a
driveback. That is, someone wanted to drive a campervan from London to
Paris, and now they want it back in London.

I don't know if it's doable in Europe (esp. between countries), but it
was a fantastic solution for me in Oz a few years back.
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Tim

"Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Ewan schrieb:
    >> I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    >> van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
    >> agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
    >> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >> Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by
    >> a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
    > No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!

You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
Sweden.
But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.

So, any suggestions for a name for this site?

tim

Tom Peel

tim(yet another new home) schrieb:
    > "Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> Ewan schrieb:
    >>> I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    >>> van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
    >>> agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
    >>> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >>> Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by
    >>> a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
    >> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!
    >
    > You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
    > Sweden.
    > But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
    > worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
    > in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.
    >
    > So, any suggestions for a name for this site?
    >
    > tim
    >
    >
    >
I'll tell you after I've registereed it <G>

T.

I see some other posters suggested looking for someone to take the van
back for you. The problem is, you have to get them registered as a
driver otherwise you are violating the rental contract.

Martin

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:06:59 +0200, Tom Peel <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >tim(yet another new home) schrieb:
    >> "Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]...
    >>> Ewan schrieb:
    >>>> I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    >>>> van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
    >>>> agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
    >>>> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >>>> Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >>>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed by
    >>>> a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
    >>> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!
    >>
    >> You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
    >> Sweden.
    >> But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
    >> worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
    >> in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.
    >>
    >> So, any suggestions for a name for this site?
    >>
    >> tim
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >I'll tell you after I've registereed it <G>
    >T.
    >I see some other posters suggested looking for someone to take the van
    >back for you. The problem is, you have to get them registered as a
    >driver otherwise you are violating the rental contract.

and if they steal the van you are responsible.
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Tim

"Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > tim(yet another new home) schrieb:
    >> "Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]...
    >>> Ewan schrieb:
    >>>> I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    >>>> van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding
    >>>> any agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any
    >>>> recommendations. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >>>> Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >>>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed
    >>>> by a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
    >>> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!
    >> You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
    >> Sweden.
    >> But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
    >> worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
    >> in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.
    >> So, any suggestions for a name for this site?
    >> tim
    > I'll tell you after I've registereed it <G>

However nice an idea, I don't think there's any money in it.

    > T.
    > I see some other posters suggested looking for someone to take the van
    > back for you. The problem is, you have to get them registered as a driver
    > otherwise you are violating the rental contract.

I think the deal has to be one where both people travel both
ways, or one person does all the driving, or.....

I don't think, "I drive the van out, you drive it back, works."

tim
.

Martin

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:38:19 +0100, "tim\(yet another new home\)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> tim(yet another new home) schrieb:
    >>> "Tom Peel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >>> news:[email protected]...
    >>>> Ewan schrieb:
    >>>>> I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    >>>>> van up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding
    >>>>> any agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any
    >>>>> recommendations. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    >>>>> Thanks for any help - Ewan
    >>>>> --Email: 'registration1' followed by @ followed by 'island' followed
    >>>>> by a hyphen followed by 'design' followed by dot co dot uk
    >>>> No, but it sounds like a great idea for a website!
    >>> You are right. I needed to share one when I came back from
    >>> Sweden.
    >>> But a one way hire or return trip cost more than the items were
    >>> worth. I ended up packing the important (but not valuable) things
    >>> in 2 by 20 Kilo boxes and left the rest behind.
    >>> So, any suggestions for a name for this site?
    >>> tim
    >> I'll tell you after I've registereed it <G>
    >However nice an idea, I don't think there's any money in it.
    >> T.
    >> I see some other posters suggested looking for someone to take the van
    >> back for you. The problem is, you have to get them registered as a driver
    >> otherwise you are violating the rental contract.
    >I think the deal has to be one where both people travel both
    >ways, or one person does all the driving, or.....
    >I don't think, "I drive the van out, you drive it back, works."

May be drive from Paris to Calais and leave it there, meet a friend
who has hired a van in London for the remainder of the trip.
When I googled I found several one way trip hirers in UK but all
precluded taking the car out of the country.
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Martin

Alec

"Ben" <"[nospam]failureman"@[nospam]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected] ...
    > If you can find somebody willing to sheppard it back to Paris to present
    > to the rental company, they may be more willing. There are a lot of
    > backpackers who would be willing to play this game.
The only snag is, for insurance and other purposes, this 'backpacker' has to
be present when the OP picks up the van in France, show his driving licence
and possibly countersign the rental agreement.. This won't be so easy if he
is in England and only wants to travel one-way to France.

Alec

Ewan

I'm moving from Paris back to London and want to move my stuff.

What a great response...

...but unfortunately I still haven't found a way to do it. I've just
scanned campervan sites without any reference to one way trips so, unless
I can find out more by telephone I'm stuck there.

Friends here in Paris advised hiring through a London office rather than a
French one. One large agency told me that this would indeed be the
cheapest - to pick up and return to a Paris rental office but booked
through London. They said they didn't do one-ways and neither did Hertz or
Avis. It is difficult to find any reference to one-way hire on the
internet. Most hire company websites ask you to specify a country and then
there's no option to drop off in another country.

At this point I'm thinking the internet is at an end and the only way to
find more information is to call them all or walk down the desks at an
airport asking each in turn.

I think it's going to turn out to be impossible and it'll be a matter of
either hiring in Paris and driving to London then back to Paris or from
London and doing the reverse.

I'll keep you posted!

Ewan

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:33:04 +0200, Dave Frightens Me
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:31:37 +0200, "Ewan " <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >> I want to rent a van to drive one-way from Paris to London picking the
    >> van
    >> up in France and leaving it in London. I'm having trouble finding any
    >> agency that will do this and wondered if anyone had any recommendations.
    >> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?
    > Why do you want the van?
    > If you are planning on moving a bunch of stuff, consider the campervan
    > agencies, as you can often get an excellent deal for doing a
    > driveback. That is, someone wanted to drive a campervan from London to
    > Paris, and now they want it back in London.
    > I don't know if it's doable in Europe (esp. between countries), but it
    > was a fantastic solution for me in Oz a few years back.



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Tim

"Ewan " <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:op.thtk7ijeyi5bhr@europa...
    > I'm moving from Paris back to London and want to move my stuff.
    > What a great response...
    > ...but unfortunately I still haven't found a way to do it. I've just
    > scanned campervan sites without any reference to one way trips so, unless
    > I can find out more by telephone I'm stuck there.
    > Friends here in Paris advised hiring through a London office rather than a
    > French one. One large agency told me that this would indeed be the
    > cheapest - to pick up and return to a Paris rental office but booked
    > through London. They said they didn't do one-ways and neither did Hertz or
    > Avis. It is difficult to find any reference to one-way hire on the
    > internet. Most hire company websites ask you to specify a country and then
    > there's no option to drop off in another country.

There is limited availability for one way hire to/from the UK because
when the car is at the other end they can't hire it out to anybody. They
have to pay someone to bring it back, which is expensive.

tim

Mimi

"Alec" <alexis2525 @ mail.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > "Ben" <"[nospam]failureman"@[nospam]gmail.com> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected] ...
    >> If you can find somebody willing to sheppard it back to Paris to present
    >> to the rental company, they may be more willing. There are a lot of
    >> backpackers who would be willing to play this game.
    > The only snag is, for insurance and other purposes, this 'backpacker' has
    > to be present when the OP picks up the van in France, show his driving
    > licence and possibly countersign the rental agreement.. This won't be so
    > easy if he is in England and only wants to travel one-way to France.

We've added another driver to a rental car a day or so after we picked it
up. We went to another office of the car rental company, he showed his
driver's license and was added. However, he was just an extra driver. Don't
know if he could have returned it, but since, in a pinch, you can just leave
it with the keys, I bet he could have.

Marianne

Tim Harrison

Check with Hertz to see if they still offer the Le Swap program.

The rental would include the trip through the tunnel and swap the car
at Coquelles for a LHD vehicle. You used to be able to pick up in one
country and drop it in another for just the Le Swap fee.

Tim